Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Bawnboy, County Cork, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Bawnboy
- County
- Cork
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- NULL
- Latest-edition OS map
- Hachured (1944)
- Coordinates
- 51.66448, -9.31843
- SMR number
- CO119-053----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
In pasture, on gentle N-facing slope. Originally circular area (diam. 22m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.7m) W->E, stone-faced externally. Public roadway crosses interior on E-W axis; no visible surface trace of enclosure S of roadway. Gap in bank to NNE (Wth 5.5m). Interior planted with conifers; raised on N side to compensate for hill slope; field clearance material dumped in NE quadrant.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - cashelunder 1 mi
- Fulacht fiaunder 1 mi
- Burial groundunder 1 mi
- Megalithic tomb - wedge tombunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.